Overview

Joaqun Jord is not only one of the most important directors in Spanish film history, but, through his films, he also connects this history with the ideological and aesthetical movements that took place in European cinema and culture. His influence transcends the fields of cinema and politics and shows a different way of understanding, producing and teaching film. He was a multidisciplinary auteur, who was always attentive to historical and political change, which he observed with a critical eye. This is one of the first books in English about Jorda's body of work. The Films of Joaquin Jord provides this recognition on the international scene with chapters by 17 contributors, academics from international universities and professionals with prestigious careers. These chapters take into consideration not only his films but all his oeuvre and his multidisciplinary activity, which encompassed fiction films and documentaries, television screenplays, translations of literature, militant politics and pedagogy.

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Author:   Fran Benavente (Associate Professor of Audiovisual Communication, Pompeu Fabra University (Spain)) ,  Glòria Salvadó-Corretger (Associate Professor of Audiovisual Communication Studies, Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (Spain))
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781399513104

ISBN 10:   1399513109
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   28 February 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Note on Transliterations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Blind Zones: The Cinema of Joaquín Jordá Fran Benavente and Glòria Salvadó-Corretger Part I. First Life. Modernity and politics 1. Joaquín Jordá and the Disobedience of Images Mateus Araújo 2. Whenever the Woman is Present: Jordá’s Political Cinematography during the 60s and 70s Considered through Female Characters Laura Gómez Vaquero 3. Film and Political Autonomy: Legacies of the Italian period in Joaquín Jordá Ignasi Gozalo-Salellas 4. The Red Years of Joaquín Jordá Santiago Fillol and Luis E. Parés 5. A Work Force of Images: Militancy as Historical Experience in Joaquín Jordá’s Numax Presents... Sara Nadal-Melsió 6. Notes on a Film about Marginality and Difference: Echoes of Pasolini in the Cinema of Joaquín Jordá Albert Elduque Part II. Second Life. After the Revolution 7. Joaquín Jordá’s The Hunter’s Assignment (1990): Filmmakers, Vampires, and Doppelgängers Teresa M. Vilarós 8. The Red and the Black. Crime Fiction and Cinema of the Real in the Films of Joaquín Jordá Fran Benavente and Glòria Salvadó Corretger 9. The Lesson of the Master: Joaquín Jordá’s Work for Television Ivan Pintor Iranzo 10. Joaquín Jordá: Dialogic Cinema as a Tool of Collective Intelligence and Public Dissent Irene Liberia Vayá 11. Participatory Montage in Jordá’s Cinema Gonzalo de Lucas and Diana Toucedo Part III. Afterlife. The Legacy of Joaquín Jordá 12. “Platform of Affected People.” Affection, Vulnerability and the Common in the Late Films of Joaquín Jordá Luis Moreno-Caballud 13. The Poetics of Transmission. Joaquín Jordá’s Legacy Brice Castanon-Akrami 14. Undead Cinema. Spectral Footprints of Joaquín Jordá in the Politicized and Participatory Theater of Roger Bernat and The Friendly Face of Fascism Theatre Company Núria Gómez Gabriel

Reviews

This book is an important contribution to the legacy of a neglected political filmmaker. Joaquim Jordà was a pioneer of the essay film and avant-garde cinema within Spain, an inspiration and mentor to future generations that have reshaped world filmmaking. Fran Benavente and Glòria Salvadó-Corretger’s volume offers exhilarating, rich and sophisticated readings of his work that capture the spirit of Jordà’s dissident voice. * Steven Marsh, Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago *

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Fran Benavente is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain). He is the author of El héroe trágico del western. El género y sus límites (The Tragic Hero in Westerns: Genre and Its Limits, 2017) and co-editor of Poéticas del gesto en el cine europeo contemporáneo (Poetics of Gesture in Contemporary European Cinema, 2013). Glòria Salvadó-Corretger is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain). She is the author of Espectres del cinema portuguès contemporani (Spectres of Contemporary Portuguese Cinema, 2012) and co-editor of Poéticas del gesto en el cine europeo contemporáneo (Poetics of Gesture in Contemporary European Cinema, 2013).

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